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Off-Topic Discussion => Arts & Talents => Topic started by: Turnsky on March 23, 2004, 06:24:52 am

Title: a render of sorts..
Post by: Turnsky on March 23, 2004, 06:24:52 am: been playing around with modelveiw and photoshop, and this was the end result..
a near-miss for Zeus during a bombing run in the light of a blue planet..
Clicky (http://nodewar.penguinbomb.com/aotd/Turnsky/Angels/render-blueplanet.jpg) ;)
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Post by: Nico on March 23, 2004, 06:29:47 am: Not bad, but since there's not perspective in modelview, you should add some to the orion in photoshop.
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Post by: Turnsky on March 23, 2004, 06:30:17 am: hmm, yeah...but still..
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Post by: Lightspeed on March 23, 2004, 10:39:18 am: The effects and colour saturation are a bit over-done i think, but else than that, nice work :)
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Post by: Knight Templar on March 23, 2004, 11:41:47 am: Hey, that's pretty neat. :yes:
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Post by: Janos on March 23, 2004, 11:54:59 am: I like it.
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Post by: Tiara on March 23, 2004, 11:57:11 am: *thumbs up*

I like it. The only thing is the excessive use of glowy things :p
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Post by: Rictor on March 23, 2004, 12:13:53 pm: I like it. The saturation is a bit much, but thats ok.

I especially like the planets in the background.
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Post by: mikhael on March 23, 2004, 01:54:21 pm: EGAD. That looks like something airbrushed on the side of a van in the 1970s!

Colorwise anyway. :)
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Post by: Nico on March 23, 2004, 02:02:45 pm: I like the saturation actually.
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Post by: mikhael on March 23, 2004, 02:23:46 pm: It needs a filter run on it to make it look airbrushed.
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Post by: Tiara on March 23, 2004, 03:06:15 pm: Turnsky, do you mind if I fiddle with it bit? :D
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Post by: Turnsky on March 23, 2004, 05:56:38 pm: Quote
Originally posted by Tiara
Turnsky, do you mind if I fiddle with it bit? :D

nah, i don't mind.. fiddle with the "cutout" filter in photoshop, i gives some rather neat effects..;)
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Post by: adwight on March 23, 2004, 08:56:51 pm: I love it, except for it's a tad too blue... I think that beam is close enough to have scathed the sheilds, so I think there should be a small shield effect.
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Post by: Turnsky on March 23, 2004, 09:41:33 pm: updated.. 'ave another look..
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Post by: Tiara on March 24, 2004, 04:56:51 am: I especially like the engines this way :) I smoothened stuff out a bit as well. Added a shield effect of my own.

(http://www.swooh.com/peon/Tiara/TurnskyRendEdit.jpg)
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Post by: Turnsky on March 24, 2004, 05:34:32 am: gee, nice
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Post by: Tiara on March 24, 2004, 05:40:48 am: Quote
Originally posted by Turnsky
gee, nice

Lol, I barely did anything :p
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Post by: Turnsky on March 24, 2004, 06:02:26 am: Quote
Originally posted by Tiara

Lol, I barely did anything :p

(http://nodewar.penguinbomb.com/aotd/Turnsky/Angels/render-blueplanet.jpg)

added a sheild effect of my own
;)
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Post by: Tiara on March 24, 2004, 09:09:43 am: Quote
Originally posted by Turnsky

added a sheild effect of my own
;)

Thats a ST shield effect really ;) FS is more of a 'BZZZT!'-effect. :D I like the effect a lot but its not really freespacey.

I also ran several filters and layered it a bit. But besides that I did very little :p
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Post by: Liberator on March 24, 2004, 12:31:27 pm: It's blue. Actually it's very blue.
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Post by: Setekh on March 25, 2004, 04:55:20 am: Fantastic mood. :) The only thing is that the blurring of the Orion makes it look like you're trying to recreate a depth of field an effect (which is great if you are), but this is made confusing because the planets in the distance as well as the Zeus in the foreground are in crisply focused. Anyway, that's nitpicking. I love this. :nod:
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Post by: Turnsky on March 25, 2004, 04:56:52 am: Quote
Originally posted by Setekh
Fantastic mood. :) The only thing is that the blurring of the Orion makes it look like you're trying to recreate a depth of field an effect (which is great if you are), but this is made confusing because the planets in the distance as well as the Zeus in the foreground are in crisply focused. Anyway, that's nitpicking. I love this. :nod:

the planets are much larger than the orion, and the zeus is the focus..;)

note, a couple of embossing overlay layers produce a neat bumpmapping effect.;)
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Post by: Setekh on March 25, 2004, 05:05:40 am: Quote
Originally posted by Turnsky
the planets are much larger than the orion, and the zeus is the focus..;)

What's your point about the planets being bigger? If they are further away, they should be more out of focus, no matter how big they are. ;)
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Post by: Turnsky on March 25, 2004, 05:13:02 am: Quote
Originally posted by Setekh

What's your point about the planets being bigger? If they are further away, they should be more out of focus, no matter how big they are. ;)

point;)

but the blurring also rids me of the jaggies that were present :p
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Post by: Setekh on March 25, 2004, 05:22:23 am: :D Yes, Modelview isn't perfect. ;)

It's excellent though, well composed above all. What inspired you to start doing some FS stuff? Just playing around? :)
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Post by: Turnsky on March 25, 2004, 05:25:01 am: Quote
Originally posted by Setekh
:D Yes, Modelview isn't perfect. ;)

It's excellent though, well composed above all. What inspired you to start doing some FS stuff? Just playing around? :)

yeah, just messing around, i needed to something involving freespace, and i needed it for AOTD..

is there any way to get truespace 3.2 to antialias, and output into a transparent background? (or is there any free proggies that do the same trick?) ;)
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Post by: Setekh on March 25, 2004, 06:34:41 am: TS is not my cup of tea, so I'd suggest a work around. Render at high resolution, then edit out the required areas in Photoshop. Should be possible straight from TS, but good luck if you go down that path. ;)
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Post by: Turnsky on March 25, 2004, 08:31:29 am: found out that Truespace outputs to a transparent TGA file, so with that, and an enterprise b model i found on my hard-drive (forgot who made it, so kudos to whomever)

(http://nodewar.penguinbomb.com/aotd/Turnsky/Angels/Enterprise-b.jpg)
and kudos to lightspeed for letting me use his planets ;)
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Post by: Fineus on March 25, 2004, 10:32:20 am: Ship lighting would be good - but it's a nice start!
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Post by: Rictor on March 25, 2004, 10:42:57 am: I actually really like the ship lighting. It looks very...approproate. Not overdone like people usually tend to, its realistic.
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Post by: mikhael on March 25, 2004, 11:43:51 am: The ships lights are good. The ambient light isn't. Space isn't bright.
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Post by: Turnsky on March 26, 2004, 12:01:03 am: tweaked the lighting, have another look-see.. ;)

Edit: just a side-note, i had to texture and UV map the damn thing myself..:nervous:
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Post by: Setekh on March 26, 2004, 04:08:22 am: Very nice. :) As a final touch, I'd add a colorise layer above the planets to get it to match the yellow tinge of the nebula and the lighting on the mesh. It looks fantastic, btw. ;)